UNDP training course for integrating mine-affected persons

KUKES, Sept. 1 – The United Nations Development Program has started in the northeastern town of Kukes a training course for reintegration of those persons who have been injured from explosions in the districts of Kukes, Tropoja and Has. The $59,000 funding covers transport and food for participants, their accommodation and payment of lecturers in the course held from the Mine and Weapon Victims association. The courses train them on such professions as barber, english language, computers or repairing electronic devices. Some $350,000 are spent in other projects for the same group in the districts funded from the United States, UNICEF, Council of Europe and other international institutions. They have helped some 271 mine-affected victims. During the war in Kosova thousands of hectares on the Albanian land were mined by the Serbian army, and that has caused hundreds of injuries to the local population there and 37 dead.